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Channels with Peter Kafka

Podcasting is growing up (Nick Quah, founder, Hot Pod)

Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Tv & Film, Business News, News

4.4585 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Nick Quah, the founder and writer of the podcasting industry newsletter Hot Pod, talks with Recode's Peter Kafka about where podcasts are headed next. Quah says two events in 2014 — Apple's decision to make the Podcasts app a default one on iOS and the success of the true crime show "Serial" — are responsible for the explosion of interest in podcasts over the past few years. His newsletter, which currently reaches about 11,000 inboxes, is aimed at people who work in the growing industry and has become his full-time job, along with several side hustles. Quah also discusses how Apple's plans to share more data about podcasts' audiences with their creators will be good in the long term for most shows, but could spell bad news for some of them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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1:00.5

This is Recode Media with Peter Kafka.

1:03.3

That's me.

1:04.2

We're part of the Box Media Podcast Network.

1:07.1

I'm here at Box Media, New York headquarters.

1:10.1

With Nick or Nicholas? How do we want to say? Nick is fine.

1:12.2

I'm here with Nick Kwa. He runs Hot Pod. Hot Pot is the most read newsletter about podcasting.

1:17.7

Probably true. It is probably the only newsletter about podcasting. Is there more than one?

1:22.5

It's the only one about the podcast industry that I know of, except for Jason Calcanus inside podcastinging. I think that's a newsletter as well. I know, I'm famous of Jason Calcanus, who's probably listening to this, but Nick Kwa is the must-read podcasting newsletter. I've been reading you forever, or at least a year, right? How old is the newsletter? The newsletter is actually about three years old. Three years? Almost to be three years old.

1:44.4

I've only been reading for a year because I've been podcasting for a year.

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